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Robots - Friday, March 16, 2007

Robot To Fast Food Nation - Hyperactive Bob - Raises More Funds

Since we last reported on HyperActive Technologies, at their Series A round, they seem to have put together more metrics to sell their robots to fast food chains. Their robot, Hyperactive Bob is sold as the brain center at fast food vendors. He counts cars and people, determines what food and how much to create and directs kitchen staff to cook the proper food.The results they claim are:
* 23% improvement in speed of service
* 65% decrease in product hold time
* 81% reduction in food waste

The system costs abot $5000 per store. While it has been testing at McDonalds and Burger King stores, the company landed its first big customer, Zaxby's, a franchise chain with more than 300 outlets in the South.

Pittsburgh-based HyperActive Technologies has raised $8.4M in additional Series B funding from Spencer Trask Ventures, says VentureWire.

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Kerien Fitzpatrick, founder and CTO behind the wheel of HyperactiveBob

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